Wondering if anyone else ever played or heard of this game?
It's another puzzle game from around the same time as Lemmings (maybe a bit later), which was on DOS. I recently felt like playing it, having never got past the 7th level back in the day when I played it, so picked it up - already doing much better, I'm up to level 11 now.
I tried to obtain it, only to find not a single website that actually provided the full version for download; a bit of investigating turned up that the reason for this is that the publisher
still sells the game. :O
Basic concept, it's tile-based, and levels consist of basically four elements on any given tile - either a red block (unmovable), a blue block (you can pick these up, upon which they'll be carried above your head, you can take them anywhere as long as you have an open tile above you, and you can put them down which will place them on the tile in front of you - if there's already one tile in front of you, you'll place the block on top of it, but you can't stack them higher than 2 tiles high without building a ramp), empty space, or the goal (one per level), and you have to figure out how to move the blue blocks to get to it. With or without a carried block, you can move one tile in either direction, and you can step up a height of one tile. Usually, you cannot turn around on the spot, but you
can if there's a tile behind you that prevents you moving forward, even if it's low enough to step up onto (as "move left/right" and "step up" are different keys). Fairly simple concept (I probably made it sound more complicated than it is), but the puzzles can be quite clever - if a bit tedious at times.
One major source of frustration, unfortunately, is that the controls do not respond nicely to being held. If you hold Left for a while and let go, he won't stop moving as soon as you let go, but will keep walking left for quite some time. This can be avoided by, unless your move is impossible to overshoot (or at least, overshooting it won't be fatal), sticking to one tile movement at a time.
http://www.soleau.com/dosgame.htmlYou can download the trial version there. It doesn't play nicely with FreeDOS, but works fine in DosBox. You can also purchase the full game, if you're so inclined.
Or, it is possible to find a registration code for it on the web. How to actually enter that code into the game though, is something that isn't explained anywhere.There's also a sequel, but from what I've seen of it (haven't actually given it a go yet) it looks very much to be the "we tried to do too much and ended up killing the spirit of the game" type of sequel...
EDIT: I made an open-source clone for Windows,
CubeGuy.